Lady Gaga’s “Marry The Night” Video Has A Nervous Breakdown In The Bath With Cheerios

So, the music doesn’t really get going until about the eight-minute mark, with Gaga filling the first chunk of the epic 13:48 minute “Marry the Night” vid with spoken word dialogue and Girl, Interrupted-esque exposition. Even so, this video is packed with a ridiculous amount of scene changes — a little ballet (Black Swan homage?), a little psych ward, some nudity, cheerios and fashion from the Future, obvs.

She told E! that the video was inspired by the “worst day of my life” when she thought her dreams were slipping away from her when her first record label Island Def Jam dropped her.

“That’s probably the most honest moment in that video of everything I’ve ever done. My directorial decision was for them to just f*cking roll the cameras, because I couldn’t go in and out of the moment.”

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I didn’t watch the video yet, but I think that the scene in the 2nd picture of this post is an homage to Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box” video? Or maybe the “grey curtains and black cross” thing is just actually common in Christian hospitals in the US, idk the similarity just jumped to my eyes. #my2cents

The choreography was amazing, as usual. A lot of the pre-music was fucked up, but the prelude monologue was great. Her line “It’s not that I’be been dishonest; I just loathe reality” is now my favourite quotation.

This is one of her better vids… the exposition actually makes sense, the emotions felt real, and lord, the things she does on/ in/ to that bathtub!

A very nice F- you to Def Jam indeed.

Also, I can kind of relate to her feelings here because I have several painful rejection letters in my inbox right now. I guess, according to the gospel of Gaga, I’ll have to marry the night, not give up on my life, etc.

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